On Sunday morning, President Donald Trump’s border czar, Tom Homan, claimed in an interview that aired on ABC that international leaders would not reject the Trump administration sending migrants back to their home countries.
“Oh, they’ll take them back,” Homan told host Martha Raddatz after she asked about how the administration would handle countries that refused to accept deportees. “We got President Trump coming into power,” Homan added. “President Trump puts America first.”
But only a few hours before that interview aired, the president of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, proved Homan wrong: In a post on X, Petro said he would not accept American planes deporting migrants back to his country until the US establishes “a protocol for the dignified treatment of migrants.”
“The US cannot treat Colombian migrants as criminals,” Petro wrote in his post. In another post, Petro seemed to suggest the problem was the migrants being sent back on military planes, writing: “We will receive our fellow citizens on civilian planes, without treating them like criminals.” (Research has shown that undocumented immigrants commit crimes at lower rates than US citizens do.)
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